When you’re the editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, a “ding” from your phone often means dropping everything.  We’ve sped out of our apartments, woken up disoriented from short sleeps...

“How much do you want this?” During a 1-hour-and-40-minute train ride back from a 15-minute Daily Northwestern training, I repeated this question dozens of times. Cigarette smoke from a nearby stranger...

Amid a morning run into Winnetka, reality struck me.  No, it wasn’t a red-winged blackbird — at least not this time. Note to readers, the area due north of the Baháʼí Temple ought to be labeled...

I’ve always been fascinated by probabilities.  I grew up in the horse capital of the world, Ocala, Florida, and my family immigrated to the United States from Colombia because of horse racing.  I...

#501e4c: that’s the hex code for Daily Northwestern purple. It’s engrained in my memory. As a design editor, you need to know the brand.  Being on the design team entailed working late nights to...